![]() So it happened that Gordievsky’s first cultural shock took place in East Berlin in 1961. and embarked on a career he had reason to hope would give him access to foreign places. By the early 1960s, he had been recruited by the K.G.B. ![]() In time, his father’s status and his own obvious intelligence ensured his admission to Moscow’s most prestigious university. agent and loyal party member, he led a privileged life - nice apartment, enough food, no members of his immediate family executed in the basement of the Lubyanka, or sent to a Siberian gulag. ![]() But Gordievsky actually had little to complain of. Gordievsky was born in Moscow in 1938, fraught times, even by Soviet standards. ![]()
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